When a satellite’s time ends, agencies may decide to send it further away to an altitude of 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface to the geostationary orbit, also known as the larger graveyard orbit, or ...

That leftover clutter might not sound like a big deal, but it’s starting to raise real concerns among scientists and space ...

In the depths of the South Pacific Ocean, far from any shipping route or inhabited island, lies a graveyard of titans from ...

Experts believe that a five-foot-wide piece of space debris discovered near an Australian mining town was part of a dead ...

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space ...

Starship, which has launched 11 times in South Texas, was NASA's vehicle of choice to land astronauts on the moon. Now the ...

The Office of Space Commerce, an office of about 50 people, exists within the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. To paraphrase its mission statement, its chief ...

Sean Duffy called out SpaceX for being “behind schedule” on a lunar lander and said he’d explore other options.

A piece of a suspected rocket found on fire in Western Australia highlights the growing problem of space junk – and how ...

A high-altitude scientific balloon operated by NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, carrying the EXCITE instrument ...

Imagine minding your own business, then spotting space debris plummeting from the sky! Witnesses in Texas called the police ...

Suspected debris from China’s Long March rocket crashed in Tibet’s Mangra County, causing a fire and toxic orange smoke, ...